The eclipse will unfold during daylight hours across parts of the Northern Hemisphere before the new moon leaves behind the darkest skies possible for the Perseid peak later that night.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2026
In some respects, our skies have gotten cleaner in the past few decades; average levels of fine particulate matter have been cut nearly in half since 2000.
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